Comments for The Seven Deadly Sins, Concluded: Pride at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 25 May 2013 23:50:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-seven-deadly-sins-concluded-pride.html#comment-4283 My confession last week: God has revealed to me that my root sin is not the pride of Adam but the pride of the enemy. For in my desire to BE THE ONE to turn on the light & draw into faith those I love, I have made myself "God"! Only the Holy Spirit can convict & convert-NOT ME. Nothing I say/do changes a soul. My part is much smaller-pray & offer my life in trust that the Good Shepherd will seek out the lost, even as He has given Himself for each one of us. All His Grace-not my abilities! - me Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:37:41 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-seven-deadly-sins-concluded-pride.html#comment-4282 "Stealth appears common to all forms of Superbia, which is why we are not as viscerally aware of it as of Lust, or Gluttony, or Anger." Pride is not often in stealth mode, because it is over others. Lust, gluttony and anger have cultural shame; whereas all mankind consents to pride. We wish to keep our own pride intact. You are viscerally aware of pride when you want to smash the pride of the other guy, but the rest of the time you tiptoe around it. Pride is the white elephant in the room. - John Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:26:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-seven-deadly-sins-concluded-pride.html#comment-4281 Aside from being a deadly sin, being wrapped up in oneself is probably a good recipe for emotional disorders. Narcissistic personalities are great contributors to a psychiatrist\'s income. Egocentricity leads to anxiety and depressive disorders. A common solution is to unwrap oneself and get wrapped up in other people. This can be hard to do when we are so encouraged to worry about ourselves in our materialistic society. Perhaps the Scriptures and Church have an ancient Wisdom? - Willie Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:13:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-seven-deadly-sins-concluded-pride.html#comment-4280 Jane Austen wrote in Pride and Prejudice: Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. Well done, Mary. - Joseph Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:51:46 +0100